RE: [PHP-DB] IIS, PHP, and session data

It turns out that the real problem was problem 1) I am not personally in control of our web server. I forwarded some of the posted messages to our IT department and they decided to change what they were telling me. They actually had register globals turned off not on. I changed my code to use the session array and it works beautifully now. Thank you all for your advice! - Matthew -----Original Message----- From: Simon Rees [mailto:tech-lists@zodiac2000.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:25 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Cc: Perry, Matthew (Fire Marshal's Office) Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] IIS, PHP, and session data On Tuesday 25 January 2005 20:20, Perry, Matthew (Fire Marshal's Office) wrote: > I am having trouble with my session data on Microsoft IIS. > > Here is a little background of the problem: > > 1) I am not personally in control of our web server. Our IT > department manages it. oh dear! ;-) > They have IIS running on their sever and use MS > SQL Server, but they have allowed me to use PHP instead of ASP. > > 2) I have Apache running on a local web server in our office (not > the IT department). It accesses the SQL Server database remotely. I I can't comment on the use of register_globals or session_register as I always use the $_SESSION array but I do use PHP on IIS... Something that you might like to check is that the directory specified by: session.save_path in the IIS server's php.ini is a directory writable by the user that IIS masquerades. The default value for this is: c:\php\sessiondata which if your sysadmin installed php as Administrator will not be writable by the IIS user (normally IUSR_<hostname>). Either get the sysadmin to specify (& create) another dir that is writable by IIS or change the permissions on c:\php\sessiondata Assuming you're running Apache on a Linux (and probably other un*x) distribution you will find that the session.save_path variable is set to /tmp which is usually world writable. I think if you posted the exact error message it would tell me if this was happening to you or not... hth, Simon -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simon Rees  |  tech-lists@zodiac2000.co.uk  | ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~